Irish Music

Album premiere: Cat Dowling – The Believer

Former Alphastates singer returns with an excellent debut solo album. As former lead singer of…

Album stream premiere: Tieranniesaur – DIYSCO

Tieranniesaur are back with a second album of disco indie jams. Listen to it here.…

Listen to Young Wonder’s Show Your Teeth EP

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ll likely have heard ‘To You’ and…

Spies – ‘Distant Shorelines’

Dublin band Spies are back with ‘Distant Shorelines’, the first single from the band since…

Download: Diamond Dagger’s Bison EP

When not accompanying David Kitt on his New Jackson project, Damo Lynch makes vintage sounding…

Watch Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly’s Willie Clancy school documentary

Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly filmed this documentary featuring Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh looking at Willie Clancy week…

Shit Robot – ‘Feels Real’ featuring Luke Jenner of The Rapture

The new single from Marcus Lambkin’s Shit Robot finds the trademark disco synth swagger in…

Last Days Of 1984 – ‘Lost Hearts’

Last week’s Sacred Animals/Last Days Of 1984 collaboration was a right grower. This week, the…

Young Wonder – ‘Time’ (video by Feel Good Lost)

Young Wonder’s amazing new single ‘Time’ gets a nice video by Feel Good Lost. The…

Maud In Cahoots – ‘Dance With Me’

I rather like this Maud In Cahoots track primarily because it sounds a bit like…

Album of the week: Solar Bears – Supermigration

John Kowalski and Rian Trench’s debut album as Solar Bears, 2010’s She Was Coloured In…

Watch Ships discuss what they’ve been up to with Eoghan Kidney

Simon And Sorcha of Ships have spent much of the year so far recording their…

Listen to Record Store Gay 2013 – a compilation of gay covers from Irish bands

Our LGBT brothers and sisters are the focus of lots of attention at the moment,…

Download: Sacred Animals vs Last Days of 1984 – ‘Aaja’

After last week’s stunning collab with Young Wonder, Darragh Nolan aka Sacred Animals is back…

Intro: Benihana – new electronic duo from Kildare

One person whose recommendations are always worth investigating is music blogger Andriana Albert. Not only…

Download: Enemies new track feat. The Cast Of Cheers’ Conor Adams – ‘Executive Cut’

The last single from Kilcoole, Wexford band Enemies, ‘Indian Summer’ indicated the band were moving…

Listen to the orchestral pop debut album from Sundernix

Back in late January, I debuted ‘Brasserie’ from Sundernix. That song comes from Sundernix’s self-titled…

Watch No Monster Club’s monkey business video for ‘A Better Fit’

One of the three No Monster Club tracks on The Community Games gets a monkey-suited…

Download the Mmoths Diaries remix EP featuring Max Cooper, Clu and Unknown

To followup the excellent Diaries EP, Mmoths today released a remix EP for free download…

Young Wonder featuring Sacred Animals – ‘Time’

This song just gets me every time. While Ian Ring and Rachel Koeman have made…